A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia have announced an agreement to work to impose regional limits on carbon emissions from transportation sources. The goal of the landmark agreement, announced Tuesday, is to create "a regional low-carbon transportation...

Five people were injured in a shooting outside a deli in the Greenspring neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore on Tuesday, police said. Officers were called about 1 p.m. to the shooting outside Saints Deli at Shirley and Park Heights avenues, where four men were found with non-life-threatening gunshot...

When it was finished, the prosecutor turned and spoke directly to the prisoner. “Mr. Shipley, have a happy holiday.” The courtroom erupted into sobs and cheers. Clarence Shipley Jr. sagged into the arms of his defense attorney because after 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he was...

Howard County Superintendent Michael Martirano is proposing an operating budget of nearly $1 billion for the next fiscal year, calling it his “road map” to guide the school system into the future. The $998.4 million budget proposal, unveiled Tuesday as a school board meeting in Ellicott City, is...

An attorney for an Iraq War veteran who pleaded guilty to stabbing his girlfriend to death in Crofton last year says his life sentence is standing in the way of him receiving mental health treatment. Jennifer Alexander argued that Ryan Hollebon — who entered an Alford plea to first-degree murder...

The state commission exploring the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force scandal heard contrasting testimony in its first meeting held in Baltimore, with the public defender’s office advocating changes to ensure accountability and two police officials saying the department needs to...

Baltimore police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man found dead in a vacant house three months ago so they can notify his family of what happened. Police released a sketch of the man Tuesday. He was found Sept. 4 in the 800 block of N. Chester St. in East Baltimore’s Middle East...

A Severn man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility for parole for the 2015 killing of a man prosecutors said was set up with the allure of a fruitful drug deal. Judge Ronald Silkworth sentenced Richard Wayne Brooks, 53, of Severn, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court,...

Court records shed more light this week on the circumstances leading up to and following two fatal hit-and-run crashes in Baltimore County this month. Two men, Man Bahadur Gurung and Jason William Hines, were charged with leaving the scenes of the crashes, both of which involved multiple vehicles....

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission ruled on Tuesday that a politically connected marijuana grower violated state regulations by using prohibited crop-protection pesticides and ordered the company to pay a $125,000 fine, issue refunds on certain products and operate under a two-year probationary...

Baltimore’s spending board is set to take the final steps to create a $52 million fund to back building projects and businesses in city neighborhoods that for decades have struggled to secure investment. Mayor Catherine Pugh said the Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund is the latest initiative...

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young said it appeared that the city police department was “stonewalling” city auditors looking into the agency’s performance at attracting recruits. Auditor Audrey Askew told members of a city commission that oversees her work that the Baltimore...

Amazon is resuming limited Prime Now service in the Baltimore area, according to an email sent to customers Wednesday. The two-hour delivery service had been suspended since a November tornado hit an Amazon facility in Southeast Baltimore, killing two workers. The deceased were identified as Andrew...

An Arbutus man reached a plea deal and avoided prison time in an animal cruelty case that captured the attention of many in the area and spurred the passage of a county law. On Monday in Baltimore County District Court, Selvin Gnanakkan, 43, entered an Alford plea to one count of animal cruelty...

A teacher at Federal Hill Preparatory School was carjacked at gunpoint outside the school last week, according to police and school officials. The incident occurred in the school parking lot at about 4:40 p.m. Dec. 11, when a 31-year-old teacher was approached at gunpoint by two black males while...

The construction worker who died after being struck by an excavator Monday in Baltimore County was one of at least four Archer Western employees who have died on the job this year. Transito Rodriguez Cruz, 36, was clearing mud from a trench at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Dundalk...

In an effort to close a $35 million gap between revenues and expenses in the Harford County Public Schools budget for the next fiscal year, Superintendent Sean Bulson has proposed cutting 179 positions, he said at a Board of Education meeting Monday night. Bulson said, however, that he hopes no...

A Howard County Circuit Court judge has denied a request by attorneys for two local teens to drop hate crime-related charges on the basis that racial slurs and swastikas found scrawled on Glenelg High School grounds in May were constitutionally protected free speech. “I think this would be a much...

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa admitted in federal court Tuesday that he willfully neglected to file income tax returns and falsely claimed deductions to slash the amount he owed to the Internal Revenue Service. In a brief court appearance, De Sousa pleaded guilty to three...

Jim Hamilton’s bakery in Bel Air was always a popular place for a glazed doughnut, peach turnover, birthday cake or a cup of coffee. But perhaps more famous was its back room, where loyal customers gathered over some 60 years to eat and drink — and kibitz over current events and problems of the...

As holiday shopping picks up and more people are out and about, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on handicap parking violators. It could be people who park in a handicap spot without a placard or use a placard that wasn’t issued for them, said Sgt. Mike Lane, supervisor of the...

President Donald Trump's school safety commission on Tuesday called for a rollback of an Obama-era policy that was meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline but that critics say left schools afraid to take action against potentially dangerous students. The panel, led by Education Secretary...

Six public schools were named Maryland Blue Ribbon Schools, an award given to the state’s highest performing schools. Gov. Larry Hogan and state Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon honored the schools during an announcement Tuesday. All six schools scored in the top 15 percent on the state standardized...

When Steuart Pittman pledged to “kiss” 287(g) “goodbye,” the county head of detention facilities took that as an order, ending the program less than 24 hours after the new county executive gave his inauguration speech. Detention Facilities Superintendent Terry Kokolis ended the immigration program...

The Center Club in Baltimore was founded by city business leaders 56 years ago, making it close in age to its average jacket-and-tie-wearing member, but club officials are working hard to skew the demographics, as well as the attire, and give more up-and-comers a place alongside already-made-its....